DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Alaska Senators In the Minority On Yemen Vote
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Alaska’s Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan voted with the minority today on the Senate resolution to direct the removal of United States armed forces from hostilities in Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.
The resolution passed the Senate on a vote of 56-41.
Sullivan issued a press release with the text of a speech he made in the Senate Wednesday in which he stated, “We all want a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Yemen, and we all want an end to the humanitarian disaster in Yemen… I do not believe that either of these goals will be made easier or advanced by less American involvement in the conflict. To the contrary, if the United States no longer has the ability to help guide the Saudis militarily in Yemen, I believe these two important goals – ending the humanitarian crisis and bringing a peaceful resolution – will actually be harder to reach.”
The Senate legislation website reported that Murkowski also voted against the resolution, but her office did not release a statement by the Sentinel’s press time today.
In his press release today, Sullivan said:
“If we cut off U.S. military assistance to Riyadh and Yemen, you had better believe the one capital in the Middle East that will be cheering the loudest is Tehran – again, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Such an action would further embolden Iran and no doubt embolden its proxies, while at the same time our allies, including Israel, would feel less secure.”
“The heinous murderers of (Jamal Khashoggi) need to be held accountable. There is no doubt about that,” Sullivan said. But he added:
“I voted against this resolution because I still think it is important to keep in mind that the lens through which we need to assess our security interests and those of our allies in the Middle East is through what helps or undermines Iran. I am concerned that this resolution can help them, and that is not good for the United States, it is not good for the war in Yemen, it is not good for the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, and it is certainly not good for our allies like Israel.”
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April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
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